I think we can do something kind of big here. Barbie in a Blender style.. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Gavin Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gavin@gavinbaker.com">gavin@gavinbaker.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Yes, please get involved :)<br>
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Need any help, holla at me!<br>
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Elizabeth Stark wrote:<br>
> There's a great opportunity for us to get involved in activism against<br>
> this bill, especially involving chapters. Ideas for how we can best do<br>
> this?<br>
><br>
> I know Change Congress is looking to target it as well.<br>
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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Rob Myers <<a href="mailto:rob@robmyers.org">rob@robmyers.org</a><br>
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> <a href="http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/16/scientific-publisher.html" target="_blank">http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/16/scientific-publisher.html</a><br>
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> "Steve sez, "Currently, the National Institutes of Health require<br>
> NIH-funded research to be published in open-access repositories. In a<br>
> cop to for-profit science publishers, Congressional Representative<br>
> John Conyers (D-MI) has re-introduced a bill (HR801) that essentially<br>
> would negate the NIH policy concerning depositing research in OA<br>
> repositories. The bill goes further than prohibiting open access<br>
> requirements, however, as the bill also prohibits government agencies<br>
> from obtaining a license to publicly distribute, perform, or display<br>
> such work by, for example, placing it on the Internet, and would<br>
> repeal the longstanding 'federal purpose' doctrine, under which all<br>
> federal agencies that fund the creation of a copyrighted work reserve<br>
> the 'royalty-free, nonexclusive right to reproduce, publish, or<br>
> otherwise use the work' for any federal purpose. The bill is bad<br>
> news." "<br>
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